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The name "Deviants" was adopted by members of the Williams community who associated themselves with a less mainstream culture, particularly social life. The name was taken from a listserver owned by Jesse Dill '04 and Chris Holmes '03, which was first created to organize [[Driscoll Deviations]], and then gradually became a means to announce social events in general. It is still used for this purpose.
The Deviants emerged in 2002 although enjoyed the height of their mischief in 2003. Prior Williams generations of people who enjoyed doing things that were off the beaten path had, until then, associated themselves with WARP and used their listserve as primary means of communication. With the graduation of the class of 2002, in 2003 WARP took on a heavier role playing, duct-tape sword, video gaming identity. Out of a desire to participate in quirky, fun events but not necessarily under the WARP banner, were born the Deviants.
Josh Ain '03 once questioned whether WARP and Deviants, indeed, needed to be separate groups, or at least have separate listservers. In an email he'd sent to both lists, he asked if Deviants was not just, in fact, a subset of WARP. He was, however, within hours of his message so deluged with replies from friendly-indignant non-WARP Deviants that he sent out another email yielding the case. The odd quad soon took on a dual identity as deviants "deviated" from WARP and became accepted by the campus as a group of fun loving students who sometimes wore a toga to dinner.
Other events by the group included Storytime, as read from the balcony window of Currier Ballroom or in the basement, co-ed naked snowball fights, murder mystery parties, landmark Cribbage matches, movie screenings (The Secret of the Sock Monkey, namely), a Bad Poetry Slam, and other dress up events.
Deviants generally reside in the [[Odd quad]], although estranged deviants can be found in other parts of campus.
Deviants is associated but not affiliated with [[WARP]] by virtue of an intersection in membership. Deviants is also loosely associated with the [[Elizabethans]] and [[(Moocho Macho Moocow Military) Marching Band]].
With the co-founders having graduated in 2003 and 2004, deviants lives on in the hands of the new generation of Williams students, perhaps waiting to take on a new meaning of its own.
